Concept Art with a Sci-Fi Twist

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Today's featured artist is tremendously gifted, and obviously prolific. Simon Weaner is a concept artist and matte painter from Quebec City, and his portfolio contains a large body of simply beautiful work. Only a couple of years out of school, Simon's collection of digital paintings, along with his level of talent, simply floors me.

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Don't Get It, But Love It!

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Do You Remember When This World Was Ours?
Living & Dying in the Afterword
by Justin Mezzell

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Us 'artistes' sometimes produce things that make people scratch their heads.  We get these strange, abstract ideas in our brains, then express them in a way that doesn't make much sense to anybody.  Many people are perturbed by these weird ramblings, almost as if the artist was trying to demonstrate superior insight, or even worse, communicate in some sort of code.  Perhaps that's indeed what's going on some of the time, but it's usually not what I see when I look at art.  Usually, I just like to take it on it's esthetic merits alone.

I admit that I don't really 'get' what Justin Mezzell is trying to say with 'Do You Remember When This World Was Ours?', but man does he ever say it well.  This is the sort of combo photo/illustration work that gives me goosebumps, creating nearly photo-realistic worlds that feature elements tantalizingly beyond reality.  More than any other technique I've seen, this kind of stuff transports you to another world; one that could just almost be real, and looks so dramatically cool that you wish it was.  

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More Fine Work from Tatiana Plakhova

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Chaos and Structure
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I know I just wrote about Tatiana the other day, but tonight she released a mountain of new material onto the interwebs, and I felt like I just had to post about it first.  I have no idea how this woman makes these images, but I want one for my wall.  Luckily, I can!  See her work for sale here.

Once again, see more of her stunningly complex creations at, well, Complexity Graphics.

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Wood Nymph

Woodnymph

Ah, the pressure's off.  After three weeks of busy, busy, busy, the schedule has slowed down to a pace that's at least sane.  After wrapping a few major projects I've decided to take only the work I already had booked between now and Christmas, so that I can use the rest of the time for myself and family.

After all, there's shopping to do.

But after days and nights of doing creative stuff for other people, I also had a hankering for doing some of my own imagining.  So I sat down at Photoshop over the weekend and started drawing pictures of crazy fantasy-creatures, indulging in the sort of nerd-fare that still floats my boat.

That's what you see here.  I call it 'Wood Nymph', and it's based on one of the many strange images that come into my head from time to time.  It's a combination of a photo I shot on Vancouver Island this summer and the hand drawn character I added in.  I had imagined some sort of giant, gentle woodland being still hiding from human civilization - basking in the morning sun after a long night of avoiding the encroachment of man upon his realm.

My wife says he doesn't look gentle, but I disagree.  The wood nymph is a ten foot tall teddy bear, I assure you.  I mean I know.... he's from my dang head after all.

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Dragons

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A hand drawn image (done in Illustrator and Photoshop) done at a huge scale. I started this months ago and forgot to finish until just now. The final image is massive. The blown up images at bottom are there for reference and are actually scaled DOWN to 35%.

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